August 2013

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MCY&S cricket coaching continues

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on MCY&S cricket coaching continues

The Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports (MCY&C) in collaboration with the National Sports Commission (NSC) cricket coaching programme continues this week on the East Coast of Demerara. Coach...

ECCB launches 13th Academy

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECCB launches 13th Academy

The East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) launched its 13th cricket academy yesterday morning at the Lusignan Community Centre ground. Forty young cricketers from Ogle to Abary between the ages of...

Negligible increase recorded in HIV prevalence

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Negligible increase recorded in HIV prevalence

– NAPS credits effective treatment programme Although negligible, the Ministry of Health last year recorded an increase in the prevalence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This...

GRA to announce partnership with banks for electronic tax payments

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GRA to announce partnership with banks for electronic tax payments

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be announcing shortly the status of their partnership with commercial banks to establish an Electronic Tax Payment system that will allow persons to pay...

Education Minister rejects Opposition members’ CSEC criticisms

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister rejects Opposition members’ CSEC criticisms

By Tiffanne Ramphal In an invited response to an article which appeared in yesterday’s (August 19) edition of this newspaper, titled ‘Opposition members blast Education Ministry for ‘poor’...

GPL pledged all its assets for Amaila project

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL pledged all its assets for Amaila project

– Former Auditor General It is not possible for the Government of Guyana to guarantee payments to any entity unless it is state-owned or controlled. This is the stark reminder of former Auditor...

‘Slingerz’ denies owing ‘Mavado’

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News 1

By Latoya Giles One day after Jamaican Dancehall Star ‘Mavado’ called a press conference to explain his absence from the Slingerz Caribbean Summer Jam last Saturday night (August 17), the...

GCCA to probe for breaches in ‘Mavado’ 19-hour flight

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GCCA to probe for breaches in ‘Mavado’ 19-hour flight

By Zena Henry Officials of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authorities (GCCA) are set to investigate whether aviation breaches occurred when dancehall star ‘Mavado’ was reportedly flown some 19 hours...

Morality in our society

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Morality in our society

With increasing frequency, activities in our society raise the question of what sort of morality is guiding our people. Killing without apparent remorse and a tendency to dehumanise each other are...

I appeal to all Guyana – please stop this cruelty

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I appeal to all Guyana – please stop this cruelty

Two days, I repeat, two days after a young man was remanded to prison for possession of an instrument (please note; an instrument) for smoking marijuana, Eric Holder, the Attorney-General for the US...

New standard set for global shipping Industry – ILO

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New standard set for global shipping Industry – ILO

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) comes into force today, inaugurating a new era of decent work for seafarers and fair competition for ship...

Bartica shop owner remanded on human trafficking, assault charges

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica shop owner remanded on human trafficking, assault charges

Yesterday, a 24-year-old woman of First Avenue, Bartica, was remanded to prison on trafficking in persons and assault charges. The allegation is that she abducted a 17-year-old girl, took her...

Police still hunting Plaisance murder accused

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police still hunting Plaisance murder accused

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Force is in the process of issuing a wanted bulletin for 23-year-old Dacia Alida Bourne, the prime suspect in the murder of Clifford...

Functioning of Region Three health facilities gaining attention of Ministry

Aug 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Functioning of Region Three health facilities gaining attention of Ministry

Although all public health facilities ultimately fall under the purview of the Ministry of Health, the various Regional Administrations still have a responsibility to ensure that everything works....

Education has become a victim of the widening gap between the rich and the poor

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Education has become a victim of the widening gap between the rich and the poor

Dear Editor As is to be expected, the government has tried to put the best spin on the recent CXC results. No doubt, those students who excelled along with the teachers at those schools that did well...

The performance gap between our students and their Caribbean counterparts is narrowing

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The performance gap between our students and their Caribbean counterparts is narrowing

Dear Editor, Guyana has once again done well in terms of education attainment at the CSEC and the CAPE. For the second time in a row, a student from the Cinderella county of Essequibo has topped the...

The Amaila hydro sabotage

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Amaila hydro sabotage

Dear Editor, The national internal sabotage by certain political miscreants, disguised as journalists and commentators, working in tandem with political parties committed to the destruction of the...

A healthy debate should begin with a general agreement on the basic facts

Aug 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A healthy debate should begin with a general agreement on the basic facts

Dear Editor, The Amaila falls project has been hotly debated in the press over the last few weeks. This debate however in some cases has been based on information that is factually inaccurate and...

Amaila represents a liability for taxpaying dollars

Aug 19, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila represents a liability for taxpaying dollars

… Govt. admits this by looking to guarantee GPL payments- Ram, Gaskin “The savings that are being touted by the Government and the Private sector Commission are false and...

Children among several injured as drag-racing bus crashes

Aug 19, 2013 KNews News 7

Fifteen passengers, including two children, were injured at around 19:30 hrs yesterday after the driver of a drag-racing minibus crashed on the East Bank Public road near Agricola. Among the injured...

Concern over fate of missing policewoman deepens

Aug 19, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Concern over fate of missing policewoman deepens

– cops question, release boyfriend Concern about the fate of Lance Corporal Patriena Nicholson has deepened, with police questioning the woman’s boyfriend, and relatives, searching hospitals...

Mocha Murder…Who killed Delon Melville?

Aug 19, 2013 KNews News 2

As investigators try to bring together the missing pieces of the gruesome murder of Delon Melville, a close associate believes that the act which was meted out on the dead man was one of a...

Caribbean Airlines Limited to review fare structure

Aug 19, 2013 KNews News 10

– following meeting with Gov’t, Private Sector Government officials recently met with executives from Caribbean Airlines Ltd. to address key issues such as customer service,...

Fernandes, Binnie retain CASA #1 positions

Aug 19, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fernandes, Binnie retain CASA #1 positions

Guyanese Nicolette Fernandes and Jamaican Chris Binnie have retained their number one positions after the completion of the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) senior championships on Saturday...

Bolt, Fraser-Pryce take third gold in relay sweep

Aug 19, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bolt, Fraser-Pryce take third gold in relay sweep

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce signed off from the Moscow world championships by claiming their third gold medals with the two 100m and 200m sprint champions...

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2026 IMC Over-40’s World Cup… Akmal/Ghani fifties push...

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Adnan Akmal and Sheharyar Ghani punched fifties to help Pakistan rally to a 7-wicket win over India when World Cup action continued yesterday at the Guyana National Stadium,...

Either way Rodrigues-Birkett cannot lose

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett was thrust unexpectedly and suddenly into the contest for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. A woman presently occupies an important diplomatic post – Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations – was nominated belatedly...

The Caribbean “Too Rich for Help”: When Will the Fiction End?

Oct 18, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – On 14 October, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that higher borrowing costs, falling development assistance and other economic pressures threaten to widen the distance between advanced and developing economies. She appealed for additional...

Jagdeo’s funeral march symphony Part II

Oct 19, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana’s number one political detector of danger, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, attended an evening of reflection for Mr. Robert Corbin, one-time deputy prime minister and opposition leader. In trademark fashion, he came armed with his own classical composition: the Jagdeo...

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